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kill time

消磨时间,消磨时光,杀死时间,消磨時間

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an occupation that passes the timekill-time pursuits

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Since the 1950s, fluoride has adapted itself to the prevailing concerns of the time.

  • But give the Kingdom credit for its sense of mercy: The lashes will be administered only 50 at a time.

  • “I think for trans men who are dating every time they hook up they have another coming out,” Sandler said.

  • Without it, they say, the disease would surely kill her within two years.

  • As far as I can tell, this magazine spent as much time making fun of French politicians as it did of Muslims or Islam.

  • It ended on a complaint that she was 'tired rather and spending my time at full length on a deck-chair in the garden.'

  • The vision—it had been an instantaneous flash after all and nothing more—had left his mind completely for the time.

  • About this time the famous Philippine painter, Juan Luna (vide p. 195), was released after six monthsʼ imprisonment as a suspect.

  • I hate to be long at my toilette at any time; but to delay much in such a matter while travelling is folly.

  • Now, it immediately occurred to Davy that he had never in his whole life had all the plums he wanted at any one time.